On May 28, during the Shadow Education SIG seminar, Weilin Wang (HKU PhD student) and Robert Liu (HKU MEd student) spoke about shadow education research in Mainland China. Weilin shared his thoughts on how start tutors in China use examination-oriented pedagogy to help students with Gaokao preparation, while Robert shared emerging findings from his pilot study on A-level students’ use of private tutoring in an international school.
Research Collaborations and Innovation: Who Makes Strategic Decisions in Science and Scholarship?
Organizer: Comparative Education Research Centre, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor Marek KWIEK
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (IAS)
UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy
University of Poznan, Poland
Date: May 18, 2021
Time: 18:00-19:15 (Hong Kong Time)
Format: Zoom
Please register: Click here
Abstract:
Publications are a major determinant of successful academic careers. Individual scientists make collaboration and authorship decisions: choosing team or solo publications, same-sex or mixed-sex collaborations, local, national or international collaborations? Past authorship decisions, including the choice of academic journals, bear on the availability of future external research grants as well as on opportunities for employment, promotion and tenure. Different types of collaborations have impact on inequalities as well as on innovation in science. In this presentation, Professor Kwiek will elaborate on dilemmas of collaborations in (1) local-national-international, (2) solo-team, and (3) male-female formats. He will also speak on how these collaborations have been driving innovation in the Polish national system of higher education and academic profession, and contributing to the Polish Excellence Initiative.
Brief bio:
Professor Marek Kwiek is the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (IAS), University of Poznan, Poland. His research interests are science of science, quantitative science studies, higher education research, and sociology of the academic profession. His current studies focus on research collaboration and social stratification in science. He has published about 200 papers and book chapters and 8 monographs. In 2020, he published in Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Scientometrics, and Journal of Economic Surveys. In 2019, he published a book: Changing European Academics: A Comparative Study of Social Stratification, Work Patterns and Research Productivity (Routledge). He has also served as a Principal Investigator in 25 international higher education research projects, and has been an editorial board member for Higher Education Quarterly, European Educational Research Journal, British Educational Research Journal, European Journal of Higher Education and for a Springer book series Higher Education Dynamics. He can be followed on Twitter @Marek_Kwiek
French-language edition of Shadow Education Book discussed by Ministers of Education in Africa
On 15 April 2021, CONFEMEN (Conférence des ministres de l’Éducation des États et gouvernements de la Francophonie), which is headquartered in Senegal, hosted high-level webinar focused on the CERC book written by Mark Bray L’éducation de l’ombre en Afrique (i.e. the French translation of the book Shadow Education in Africa: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications).
The event was co-hosted by France Éducation International, which is an arm of the French government responsible for international relations in the education sector.
Following introductions by CONFEMEN Secretary-General Abdel-Rahamane Baba-Moussa and FEI Director-General Pierre-François Mourier, Mark Bray presented the book. Then six Ministers of Education and/or their representatives spoke, namely:
- Chad: Aboubakar Assidick Tchoroma,
- Gabon: Camelia Ntoutoume-Leclerq,
- Guinea: M. Bah,
- Guinea Bissau: Arcenio Adulai Baldé,
- Senegal: Chaikana Lam, and
- Togo: Dodzi Kokoroko.
Other speakers included:
- Alioune Sall, Director of the African Futures Institute (AFI),
- Manos Antoninis, Director of UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report,
- David Atchoarena, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and
- Koumbou Boly Barry, Chief of Education in ICESCO, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.
All speakers recognized the need to focus more clearly on private supplementary tutoring, especially in the context of social inequalities. More data are needed and wider discussion in order to ‘take the topic out of the shadows’.
2021 annual conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong
As a co-sponsor of the 2021 annual conference of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong, CERC welcomes comparative education researchers from around the world. The greeting message from Dr. Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko, CERC Director can be watched below.
This year’s theme is “Geopolitics of Knowledge and Education Policy”. The schedule and registration details are available at https://sites.google.com/view/ceshk-conference-2021/home (Zoom links embedded). You can still sign up!
Shadow Education SIG on Zoom, 18 November 2020
The Shadow Education SIG members met virtually on November 18, 2020 to listen to a presentation by Mr Li Jun, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, HKU.
Li Jun’s presentation was entitled: “Lessons from the Fieldwork: Researching Private Tutoring Entrepreneurs in the Context of Chongqing, China”
The SIG was well attended by current and new members.
Shadow Education SIG meeting, 30 October 2020
Dr Achala Gupta, a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey in the UK, made a virtual presentation for the Shadow Education SIG on October 27. The presentation title was: “Teacher-entrepreneurialism: a case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India.” The presentation was based on an article, published in Critical Studies in Education –DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2019.1708765
The SIG’s was chaired by Dr Nutsa Kobakhidze and well-attended by SIG’s previous, current and new members.
Shadow Education SIG Meeting, 20 July 2020
Three of our MEd students presented at the virtual Shadow Education SIG on July 20.
Sissy Chen’s presentation title was “Parental Perspective on Private Tutoring in TOEFL and SAT in Chengdu, China”. Andrey Khojeev focused on “University Teachers as Private Tutors: Towards Multiple Professional Identities in Uzbekistan”, and finally, Eric Dong spoke about “Researching the shadows: Design and key findings of a systematic literature review on mainland Chinese private supplementary tutoring (2000–2019)”.
The SIG was well attended by regular members and guests. Please wish our MEd students all the best in writing up their dissertations.
This was the final SIG in this semester.
It will come back in September with next topics, speakers and guests. Have a great summer!
Shadow Education SIG Meeting, 14 July 2020
On July 14th, the Shadow Education SIG members gathered virtually to listen to a presentation by a PhD candidate Ms Pubali Ghosh. The presentation title was: “The influence of macrosystem interactions on the construction of private tutoring decisions among senior secondary students in West Bengal, India.”
The SIG was joined by Prof Mark Bray from HKU, Dr Steve Entrich from University of Potsdam, Dr Dr Siyuan Feng from HKU, Hugo Horta from HKU, Dr Achala Gupta from UCL IoE, and Dr Kevin Yung from the EDuHK, graduate students and many of SIG’s current and previous members. The SIG was chaired by Dr Nutsa Kobakhidze from HKU.
During the meeting, the SIG members had an opportunity to ask questions and comment on Pubali’s ongoing longitudinal study on private tutoring in West Bengal, and provided her with critical and constructive feedback.
The SIG serves as a support group for graduate students and young scholars interested in shadow education and privatization of education broadly speaking. If you’d like to become a member of the SIG, please let us know.
Shadow Education SIG meeting, 30 June 2020
Ms Shalini Bhorkar, a 3rd-year PhD candidate at the UCL Institute of Education, made a virtual presentation for the Shadow Education SIG on June 30. The title of presentation was: “Power, interests and ideas: A disaggregated theoretical approach for political economy analysis of private tutoring in Maharashtra state, India.”
The SIG was joined by Prof Mark Bray from HKU, Dr Will Brehm from UCL IoE, Dr Siyuan Feng from HKU, Dr Achala Gupta from UCL IoE, Dr Rafsan Mahmud from Open University Bangladesh, Dr Vít Šťastný From Charles University Prague and Dr Kevin Yung from the Education University of Hong Kong.
Many SIG’s current and previous members joined the meeting. It was chaired by Dr Nutsa Kobakhidze from HKU.
Shadow Education SIG members gathered virtually via Zoom on May 19, 2020
Shadow Education SIG members gathered virtually via Zoom on May 19, 2020 to listen to a presentation by Dr Vít Šťastný (Institute for Research and Development of Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic). The topic of the presentation was “Mainstream Schools as Shadow Education Providers in the Czech Republic.”
The SIG was chaired by Dr Nutsa Kobakhidze from HKU and well attended by SIG members as well as guests from various locations.
